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Theatre and arts reviews and features from Scotland and beyond, by Mark Brown
Reviews: Imaginate Children’s International Theatre Festival, Edinburgh
THEATRE Imaginate Children’s International Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Wanted: Rabbit Church Hill Theatre Studio, until tomorrow Alles Seen at Dance Base, ends today; then at Paisley Arts Centre, May 14 Mise – Story Of A Girl Seen at Church Hill Theatre Studio, run ended Reviewed by Mark Brown Of the […]
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Reviews: The Seagull & The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (Sunday Herald)
May 6, 2013
THEATRE The Seagull Citizens Theatre, Glasgow until May 11 The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish Seen at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, run ended; touring until June 1 Reviewed by Mark Brown John Donnelly’s new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull for English touring company Headlong succeeds precisely where the […]
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Review: Highland Fling by Matthew Bourne, Scottish Ballet tour
April 30, 2013
Highland Fling, Scottish Ballet, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, review Scottish Ballet’s production of Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling is filled with ironic wit, elegance and startling energy, says Mark Brown. A radical reimagining of 19th-century Danish choreographer August Bournonville’s La Sylphide, Matthew Bourne’s 1994 piece Highland Fling (which he has directed anew for Scottish Ballet) creates a […]
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Review: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, NTS tour (Daily Telegraph)
April 30, 2013
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, review Mark Brown finds this promenade production of the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish very high quality. Promenade theatre – in which audience members follow the actors on a pedestrian journey – […]
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Reviews: Poke & Wuthering Heights, The Arches, Glasgow
April 30, 2013
THEATRE Platform 18: Poke & Wuthering Heights; seen at The Arches, Glasgow, run ended; at Traverse, Edinburgh, May 1-3 Reviewed by Mark Brown The Arches is Scotland’s undisputed capital for the many and varied theatrical forms which bump and jostle under the huge umbrella that is labelled “performance art”. The venue’s annual […]
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Review: A Doll’s House, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh (Sunday Herald)
April 25, 2013
THEATRE A Doll’s House Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, until May 4 Reviewed by Mark Brown It is four years since Zinnie Harris’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s great play A Doll’s House premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London. If anything, intervening events have rendered this revival by the National Theatre of Scotland and […]
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Review: A Doll’s House, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh (Daily Telegraph)
April 21, 2013
A Doll’s House, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Mark Brown wishes Zinnie Harris hadn’t tampered so much with Ibsen’s setting of the play, A Doll’s House, at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh. We are in London, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in the government-owned home of recently-appointed cabinet minister Thomas Vaughan MP and […]
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